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The White House recently released America’s AI Action Plan – a bold roadmap to secure global AI dominance for the United States. At Planetary Systems AI, we have already been executing on it since Day 1 of our founding. 

Cover page, The White House America’s AI Action Plan released July 23, 2025

First and foremost, the plan calls for establishing an “AI & Autonomous Systems Virtual Proving Ground at DOD” to scope technical, geographic, security, and resourcing requirements for next-generation government and AI capabilities at the U.S. Department of Defense. Space is now a warfighting domain and space superiority is a priority in the United States’ position for Assured Access to Space for all.

Here’s how PSAI is delivering on America’s AI vision:

  • Automation Systems at Scale –  Our proprietary spacecraft-capability assessment models operate as a distributed AI proving ground, testing autonomous maneuver alerts, threat detection, and mission-critical decision-making 24/7 for space operations.
  • Defense-Ready Technology – We are building secure, robust AI systems that the Department of Defense needs at unclassified levels—systems that can operate independently in contested environments with zero ground control that are proven and tested
  • American Innovation –  100% U.S.-developed AI architecture designed with national security priorities from the ground up
  • Rapid Adoption – Leveraging AI tools such as LLM’s and generative AI capabilities in innovative ways for in areas such as space domain awareness and space situation awareness are breeding grounds for new use cases and applications, particularly in next-gen AI agentic systems and computing power.
  • International Cooperation – With allied partners in countries like Australia, South Korea, United Kingdom and in the European Union, coordinated commercial capabilities being operationalized in test environments are piloted with government partners.

The plan emphasizes America must “harness the full power of American innovation” to maintain “unquestioned and unchallenged global technological dominance.” That’s exactly what we are doing – turning mastery of space into America’s ultimate AI advantage.

For Defense Partners: Our orbital AI system is ready to support your mission-critical operations today, not years from now.

For Investors: This isn’t just policy alignment – it’s market validation. PSAI is positioned at the intersection of America’s highest strategic priorities: AI dominance and space superiority.

The future of American AI leadership isn’t just about what we build on Earth. It’s about extending that leadership to the ultimate high ground and frontier: space. 

Watch this space.

🔗 Read the full AI Action Plan: https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/07/white-house-unveils-americas-ai-action-plan/

 

About Planetary Systems AI (www.planetarysystems.ai): PSAI is a planetary support company accelerating data flow and insight generation for decision-making in the space sector, optimizing planetary support operations.

Planetary Systems AI Press Contact:

Mack Reed
Head of Product
E: pr@planetarysystems.ai

A smiling woman, smiling uniformed military officer, and smiling man standing before a series of banners that each say "INNOVATION HUB."
From L: PSAI CEO Cindy Chin, SDA TAP Lab director Maj. Sean Allen, PSAI Head of Product Mack Reed

This is the first in a series of notes from our 3-month residency in Cohort 4 of the SDA TAP Lab’s Project Apollo accelerator:

It’s Day 2 here in Colorado Springs, and we’re already brainstorming at an extraordinary level.

The U.S. Space Force has pulled in PSAI, along with experts in sensor technology, threat assessment, and space-domain awareness, to collaborate on methods of sorting out hostile satellite activity from the myriad commercial satellites, rocket bodies, and chunks of debris cluttering earth orbit.

Landscape near Colorado Springs.

The TAP Lab mission’s 512-day deadline is as short and ambitious as its list of goals is long and challenging. The learning curve feels like a tight, nearly-vertical straight line.

And we could not be in a better place right now to absorb information, forge meaningful partnerships, and make great friends and opportunities as we define where we are best-positioned to pitch in on delivery.

We’ll share more as the project develops; Watch this space.

We are stoked for what we can accomplish tomorrow and beyond. 
#space #orbit #datascience #ussf #sdataplab #accelerator 

“During the three-month TAP Lab cycle, PSAI will further test and refine its solutions for space domain awareness by responding with a team in a given scenario related to threat warning and assessment. “

Via satellite

SatelliteToday.com

 

A launched rocket soars above billowing white clouds of exhaust, white-hot flame shooting from its stern, against a partly cloudy blue sky.
A Northrop Grumman Antares rocket lifts off on a cargo supply mission to the International Space Station. Photo by Cindy Chin, Planetary Systems AI.
A satellite studded with sensors, instruments, and antennae floats in the black void of orbit above the curved hazy blue surface of the earth, with large, wing-like solar panels extending from either side of its cylindrical body.
Blue Origin’s Blue Ring project, announced in late 2023, is developing vehicles like these to manage orbital logistics and the gathering, processing, and transmission of data.
Two women facing away from the camera in a large mission-control room. Before them are a man in glasses and six video screens showing camera views of a rocket on a launch pad, weather maps, and other mission data.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 ground crew preparing for launch earlier this year at Space Launch Complex 40, at Kennedy Space Center. Photo by Cindy Chin, Planetary Systems AI.

The U.S. Space Force is partnering with private industry this spring to develop the “Digital Spaceport of the Future.” 

The intention implied in this ambitious program’s title speaks to the enormity of the problem that it’s meant to solve: 

The operating system for U.S. spaceports – a patchwork infrastructure of labor-intensive operations and logistics cobbled together over 60+ years from stovepiped government-agency software running on aging hardware – desperately needs modernization. 

Why? The launch business is booming and, with it, the core data practices of the space economy. 

That’s where AI comes in:

The U.S. Space Force expects launch cadence at the nation’s spaceports to speed up by 30% year-over-year; the Eastern Range alone will host more than 116 launches in 2024. 

SpaceX alone launched 1,871 Starlink satellites in 2023, and 564 so far in 2024. Amazon plans more than 77 launches with partner launch providers for its own Project Kuiper, and Blue Origin is developing Blue Ring, a multi-use spacecraft that will move data, cargo, and other spacecraft in and between earth and lunar orbits.

So, as the space industry surges into a state of massive, vibrant complexity and growth, stakeholders across all domains find themselves working on a universal problem: making data work better and faster.

Acquiring data is easy: Whatever the instrumentation – satellite sensors, telemetry systems, computational analysis – any space company’s access to their own data is no more complicated than the tools and staffing they use. The hard part is normalizing and operationalizing that data with context and insights – the kind that support budgeting, strategy, development, and real-time operations. 

Data practitioners still struggle with normalizing and interpreting data correctly to support their planning and decision-making in the increasingly complex and data-rich intraorbital environment.

Artificial intelligence, carefully built and responsibly deployed, will streamline those efforts, and support that heavy lift. 

By empowering efficient R&D and ensuring safer and faster operations across complex technical domains, AI will serve as the radically-expanding space economy’s amplifier – and pressure valve.

In design work, AI can model potential equipment failures under myriad conditions, exposing risks before costly and dangerous live operations reveal them the hard way.

At launch, AI can identify anomalies and shut down unforeseen mission risks far faster than human monitors ever could.

And during spaceport data operations – whether via post-processing and analysis, active synthesis, or networked orbital computing – AI can reveal critical anomalies and valuable opportunities across completely heterogeneous datasets that might otherwise have been lost in hours of costly human labor.

Built fully interoperable, responsibly scalable, and thoroughly secure, AI will fuel the space economy’s already massive growth – and the evolution of Earth as a spacefaring world – for centuries to come. 

We are excited to be architecting that future, and that’s why we at Planetary Systems AI are partnering with agencies, private companies, and passionate, brilliant minds to accelerate their growth. 

We are obsessed about space data. Watch this space. Or reach out. We’re always glad to connect and learn from you.

Mack Reed is Head of Product at Planetary Systems AI. He can be reached via our Contact page.